Delivering Alpha

This is not the first time we've heard this either. At the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference the other day, hedge fund managers were there to give their best ideas, have some good food, network with other hedge-funders and talk about a variety of issues pertaining to the world economy. Many of...

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Tyler Mathisen of CNBC hosted a panel yesterday at the CNBC/Institutional Investor "Delivering Alpha" conference with six of the brightest minds in the hedge fund world, and asked them for some of their best investment ideas. Up first was Kyle Bass from Hayman Capital, and his idea was to short...

At the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference, Carl Quintanilla is moderating a panel about real estate, which includes Bill Ackman of Pershing Square, Sam Zell, Chairman of Equity Group Investments, and Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group. Bill Ackman says that one thing the U...

Traders react sharply to news reported right here on Benzinga. Reporting live from the Delivering Alpha conference in New York City, we informed our readers that Bill Ackman, the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital, was long on the Hong Kong dollar. Ackman expected the HKD to appreciate by...

At the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference, CNBC's Kat Kelly is moderating a panel on commodities, and the panel thinks that gold is headed sharply higher. One of the panelists, Paul Touradji, of Touradji Capital, said that gold could go as high as $2,500 an ounce, or perhaps higher a year from now...

Jim Chanos is speaking at the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference and he is saying he is short a variety of property developers, short a number of banks, and long the Macau casinos.

Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital is at the Delivering Alpha conference sponsored by CNBC and Institutional Investor and he is saying he is long the Hong Kong dollar, saying it is severely undervalued. Ackman believes that that the Hong dollar will appreciate perhaps some 30%, as Hong Kong...

Marty Whitman, who is the founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer, and Portfolio Manager of the Third Avenue Value Fund, told the audience at the CNBC Delivering Alpha Conference today that he is long shares of POSCO (NYSE: PKX). The stock is currently trading down 1.38% to $93.42, but has moved well...

Tom Buerkle International Editor from Institutional Investor is moderating a panel at the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference regarding emerging markets, and asks whether their time has come. Buerkle interviewed Martin Whitman, of Third Avenue Management, Scott Kalb of Korea Investment Corporation,...

CNBC's Steve Liesman is moderating a panel at the Delivering Alpha conference and he is talking to panelists on how to solve the deficit problem in this country. Liesman said that currently, we have $60 trillion of unfunded liabilities. MF Global's (NYSE: MF) CEO Jon Corzine was questioned by...

Maria Bartiromo of CNBC is at the Delivering Alpha conference and she is speaking with Blackrock (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink, Meredith Whitney, Jim Leech, and Pierre Lagrange. Meredith Whitney said that she is more bullish on U.S. then other markets, for the fact that the U.S has "ermrging markets...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is at the Delivering Alpha conference and he is talking about the financial problems we are still facing, despite many of us thinking we had moved past it. Geithner, being interviewed by CNBC's Jim Cramer, is saying that you need a unified commitment to solve...